Quotes From "A Dictionary Of The English Language: An Anthology" By Samuel Johnson

NE'TWORK: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections....... R E T I' C U L A T E D: Made of network; formed with interstitial vacuities. Samuel Johnson

PU'RIST: one superstitiously nice in the use of words. Samuel Johnson